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Personal and political correspondence [textual record]

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Date:

1831-1922.

Reference:

MG24-B30

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

112007

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John Sandfield Macdonald fonds

Personal and political correspondence
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Date(s):

1831-1922.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

22 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of correspondence largely of the period 1850-1856 in volume 6 containing a variety of letters from several sources: Letters from John A. Macdonald, ca. 1862 and 1871; Lord Monck and H.-G. Joly, 1862; A.-A. Dorion, 1864 and Edward Blake, 1871 (photocopies, 11 pages), copies received from Mrs. Thomas Caldwell of Toronto; Letter from Col. George T. Denison, 1863, received from Col. E.L. Coldwell in 1963, of St. John, Quebec. There are also two letters of John A. Macdonald, 1870, photocopies, 6 pages, received from Miss Mary C. McDougall of Toronto in 1963. There is a letter of John N. McIntosh, 1862, and an unsigned fragment of a letter, 1868, photocopies, 4 pages, copied in 1969 from the originals in the possession of Dr. Gustave Lanctot of Kirk's Ferry, Quebec, also available in transcripts. In addition, there is a letter from John Sandfield Macdonald declining an invitation to attend a dinner in honour of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1851. The John Sandfield Macdonald letter was received in 1970 and transferred in 1979 from MG 55/24 No. 338.

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MG24-B30
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Volume [MG24 B 30]

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1;

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6;

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